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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: crimes that inspired Agatha Christie
    sub title: the facts behind the fiction
  name:
    name part: Oates, Jonathan
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Berg, Anna-Lena
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: True crime stories.
  genre: Literary criticism.
  genre: Récits criminels.
  genre: Critiques littéraires.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 232 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
  abstract: "Did you know that many of Agatha Christie's best-selling detective stories have their basis in reality? 'Who killed Charles Bravo and why?' asks retired Superintendent Spence in Elephants Can Remember. He refers to an unsolved Victorian murder mystery, one of many allusions to real life crime and criminals in Agatha Christie's fiction. The infamous Dr Crippen, Jack the Ripper, John George Haigh, and many other real killers, fraudsters and spies, figure prominently in her plots, both explicitly and implicitly. Many of these cases belong to British criminal history, others originate from the USA and France. They cover a time frame from the eighteenth century to the 1960s, showing that Agatha Christie was not only an inspired writer of fiction but had a knowledge of true crime as well. There are even instances where she seems to have anticipated real life crimes, as in the case of the infamous poisoner Graham Young. This book explains the reality of these criminals and their crimes - some of which are well known, others largely forgotten - and how they are utilised in Agatha Christie's stories. Armed with this book, fans of the author's work will be able to gain new insights when reading her books either for the first time or on a repeat reading"--Publisher's description.
  note: Jonathan Oates, Anna-Lena Berg.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Christie, Agatha
      name part: 1890-1976
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Crime
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Crime in literature
  subject:
    topic: Criminalité dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Crime
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Crime in literature
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
  classification: 823.912
  identifier: 9781036126544
  identifier: 1036126544
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: UKMGB
    record creation date: 250513
    record change date: 20260511162925.3
    record identifier: in00005781335
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng